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surface.’’ The superficial ornament assumes a variety of aspects, ranging from the rounded 
wart-like excrescences indicated by Gumbel’s drawing of Lagena synedra, to the oval or 
elongated beads of Parker and J ones’s figure, and the irregular interrupted costse shown 
in fig. 16. The features of the test in this respect are too variable to afford a basis for 
subdivision. 
In the recent condition Lagena distoma-mar garitif era is an Australian Foraminifer. 
It is stated to be common in sponge-sand from Melbourne ; and it occurs sparingly in 
dredged sands from near East Moncoeur Island, Bass Strait, 38 fathoms, and from the 
west coast of New Zealand, 275 fathoms. 
Gumbel’s specimens ( Lagena synedra) were obtained from Nummulitic marls at three 
localities in the Bavarian Alps. 
Lagena hispida, Reuss (PL LA 7 II. figs. 1-4 ; PI. LIX. figs. 2, 5). 
“Spbserulse hispidce Soldani, 1798, Testaceographia, vol. ii. p. 53, pi. xvii. figs. Y. X. 
Oolina salentina (1), Costa, 1856, Atti dell’ Accad. Pont., vol. vii. p. 118, pi. xi. figs. 13, 14. 
Lagena hispida, Reuss, 1858, Zeitschr. d. deutsch. geol. Gesellseh., vol. x. p. 434. 
„ „ Id. 1863, Sitzungsb. d. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. xlvi. p. 335, pi. vi. figs. 77-79. 
,, jejfreysii, Brady, 1866, Report Brit. Assoc., Trans. Sections, p. 70. 
„ hispida, Jones, Parker, and Brady, 1866, Monogr. Eoram. Crag, p. 30, No. 15. 
The shell of Lagena hispida assumes a great variety of forms, but it is almost 
invariably ectosolenian, the body being globular, pyriform, oval, or elongate and tapering, 
and the neck usually of considerable length. The surface is covered with fine bristle-like 
spines, closely set. 
Under the name Lagena hystrix, Reuss has described and figured an allied variety, 
in which the hirsute aspect is due to short tube-like projections with truncate ends. 
It is perhaps open to question whether these are anything more than worn or broken 
spines. 
Lagena hispida is a widely distributed but not a common species. It has been found 
in shallow wrnter at several points on the northern and western shores of the British 
Islands ; in the Faroe Channel, 540 fathoms ; and in the North Atlantic, 435 to 1360 
fathoms ; at one Station in the South Atlantic, 1900 fathoms ; at six in the South Pacific, 
129 to 1825 fathoms ; and at one in the North Pacific, 345 fathoms. 
Its geological history extends back to the Middle Lias of France (Terquem and 
Berthelin) ; and it occurs subsequently in the Eocene deposits of Paris (Terquem), the 
Septaria-clays of Germany (Reuss), the Miocene and Pliocene of Southern Italy (Seguenza, 
Costa), and the Crag of the east of England (Jones, Parker, and Brady). 
